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The Textile Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2011
Our people are our future. With them and the wind in our
sails, we feel buoyant about achieving our stretch goal of be-
coming a $65 billion group by 2015.
human resource management
Today, we are a multi-ethnic, multi-di-
mensional group with a bench strength of
133,000 passionate and committed peo-
ple belonging to 42 nationalities across six
continents. For 2010-11, our consolidated
revenues stand at $35 billion, compared
to $29 billion in the preceding year, re-
cording a 22 per cent growth. Our leader-
ship, regardless of levels, has a penchant
for collaborative and innovative solutions,
for new ways of working that keep our
companies and our products on our clients
and customers radar all the time. This is
what drives our performance.
I believe that purposive actions in the people area
can be huge differentiators to our growth plans. For
us, it is very important to know what our people think
of us. So we recourse to a biannual Organizational
Health Survey (OHS) conducted by Gallup as the
barometer of the engagement at work index in our
group. Over 28,000 executives spanning 31 countries
participated in OHS 7 (2010). The participation level
at 97 per cent, in Gallup’s opinion, sets a new bench-
mark. Given its objectivity and rigor of its process,
there is immense value in its findings.
It is a matter of great satisfaction for me that the
key strength of the Birla Group, as identified in the
OHS, continues to be the great sense of pride that our
employees experience and express in working for the
Aditya Birla Group. More importantly, this pride stems
from our employees’ belief and conviction that we are
a good corporate citizen. Given the decline in ethics
we see in business today, that is a huge validation of
our insistence on value-based leadership. Pride, in
turn is a great driver of positive energy and perform-
ance.
To capitalize on this positivity and to grow and hone
the talent resident in the group, we have launched sev-
eral initiatives that further our employee value propo-
sition – a World of Opportunities. We have launched
the ‘Career Management Services’, a pioneering ef-
fort which is an integrated end-to-end career service
aimed at all employees. This is already a foot in the
cement business. Over the coming years it will be ex-
tended across other businesses in the group.
On the issue of grooming talent, collectively our
Business Directors and Business Heads, along with
Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla
Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
– Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
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